~ Cassian

The day was fast coming to an end, but the questions in my head hadn’t found answers yet. And this was very unusual.

I considered myself a deep researcher. Yet when it came to the matters on my mind, nothing I searched gave me a positive or clear answer.

Nothing made sense.

First, it was my father who suddenly brought home a stranger—something he had never done.

My father was more hostile than Sylver. More hostile than any vile king I’d ever known or read about. Yet, somehow, he ...